COVID-19 infection linked to increased mask-wearing due to silent risk awareness

Researchers at The University of Osaka have found that individuals in Japan who have been infected with COVID-19 are more ...
Dexerto

Government employees caught using masks of colleagues to trick facial recognition & skip work

Government staff in China have been exposed for gaming facial recognition systems by wearing paper masks printed with their coworkers’ faces to clock in without actually showing up. The incident took ...
Frontiers

Development and characterization of a scalable calcium imaging assay using human iPSC-derived neurons

Neuroscience drug discovery is challenged by the brain’s structural and cell-type complexity, which is difficult to model in cellular systems compatible with high-throughput screening methods. Calcium ...
hollywoodunlocked

Chinese Government Employees Caught Using Face Masks With Coworkers’ Faces to Trick Facial Recognition Systems

Several government employees in China are under investigation after being caught using face masks printed with their coworkers’ faces to bypass facial recognition attendance systems. According to ...
New York Post

YouTube’s deepfake detection tool could allow Google to use creators’ faces to train AI bots: report

Experts are sounding the alarm over YouTube’s deepfake detection tool — a new safety feature that could allow Google to train its own AI bots with creators’ faces, according to a report. The tool ...
Futurism

Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...
WBEZ

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

The Trump administration has wiped a facial recognition policy from its website while further embracing the controversial technology and securing a $9 million contract with a company barred from ...
Chicago Sun-Times

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

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California bans most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during operations

California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed ...
marktechpost

Building a Speech Enhancement and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Pipeline in Python Using SpeechBrain

In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...
People

With the Python Challenge Over, Florida Turns to Robotic Rabbits to Stop Invasive Snakes

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park South Florida Water Management District via AP; AP Photo/Lynne Sladky ...